umbellifer
@apiaceae.bsky.social
land trust worker in baltimore, developmental editor of academic work in the humanities, urban farmer, PhD in cultural studies, biophilic and 'a salty person'
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The surveillance dragnet trend under construction for decades is coming to fruition on a global scale.
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. “They can follow you to the streets,” said one researcher. nyti.ms/3MFsyQM
Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters
As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests.
nyti.ms
February 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
The surveillance dragnet trend under construction for decades is coming to fruition on a global scale.
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KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
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“Though Black women only account for about 14% of the workforce, they represented over half of all women’s job losses during the U.S. employment market’s most volatile months in 2025, like March, April, June, and December.”
February 13, 2026 at 11:36 AM
“Though Black women only account for about 14% of the workforce, they represented over half of all women’s job losses during the U.S. employment market’s most volatile months in 2025, like March, April, June, and December.”
some explanation as the article doesn't really provide any:
1) the overpopulation is >20x than a healthy ecosystem for the land acreage inhabited
2) that density means deer eat all tree saplings, shrub & native seedlings, & our forests can't regenerate/will die
& 3) also breeds disease for the deer
1) the overpopulation is >20x than a healthy ecosystem for the land acreage inhabited
2) that density means deer eat all tree saplings, shrub & native seedlings, & our forests can't regenerate/will die
& 3) also breeds disease for the deer
Baltimore’s overrun by deer. The city plans to kill them.
Deer are out of control in Baltimore. The city plans to shoot them.
Deer in Baltimore are out of control. Starting this spring, the city plans to deploy sharpshooters in three parks to begin culling the population.
buff.ly
February 13, 2026 at 12:42 PM
some explanation as the article doesn't really provide any:
1) the overpopulation is >20x than a healthy ecosystem for the land acreage inhabited
2) that density means deer eat all tree saplings, shrub & native seedlings, & our forests can't regenerate/will die
& 3) also breeds disease for the deer
1) the overpopulation is >20x than a healthy ecosystem for the land acreage inhabited
2) that density means deer eat all tree saplings, shrub & native seedlings, & our forests can't regenerate/will die
& 3) also breeds disease for the deer
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Baltimore!
February 13, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Baltimore!
"I don’t think the other side [overlords] realizes how much credentialing pacifies social unrest"
Went in my bag last night — after many drinks, even — to discuss “cooling out” in our current decayed and captured opportunity structure. I don’t think the other side realizes how much credentialing pacifies social unrest…
February 12, 2026 at 2:13 PM
"I don’t think the other side [overlords] realizes how much credentialing pacifies social unrest"
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I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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reading two novels about physics and their often strange, mystical human midwives & adopting the advice of the monks who just completed their 2300mi walk for peace to always clean my mirror and not keep my phone tethered as if a lover so as to start each day with maximal intention on this earth, xox
February 12, 2026 at 12:25 PM
reading two novels about physics and their often strange, mystical human midwives & adopting the advice of the monks who just completed their 2300mi walk for peace to always clean my mirror and not keep my phone tethered as if a lover so as to start each day with maximal intention on this earth, xox
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks
February 11, 2026 at 8:02 PM
I gotta say, "the Pentagon uses a high powered laser to shoot down a party balloon" feels like enough symbolism for awhile. all full up thanks
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‘Point-of-no-return’: Lock-in of a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, warn scientists
- Continued global heating could set an irreversible course by triggering tipping points, but the public and politicians are largely unaware
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Continued global heating could set an irreversible course by triggering tipping points, but the public and politicians are largely unaware
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 4:18 PM
‘Point-of-no-return’: Lock-in of a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, warn scientists
- Continued global heating could set an irreversible course by triggering tipping points, but the public and politicians are largely unaware
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Continued global heating could set an irreversible course by triggering tipping points, but the public and politicians are largely unaware
#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.
here with my frequent minor key mundane posting register to share that we are excited to welcome some new plant babies to the home space, good morning
February 11, 2026 at 1:58 PM
here with my frequent minor key mundane posting register to share that we are excited to welcome some new plant babies to the home space, good morning
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“In our… research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it… Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day…”
February 11, 2026 at 1:01 PM
“In our… research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it… Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day…”
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DEVELOPING: All flights in El Paso, Texas have been grounded from Feb 10, 11:30PM to Feb 20, 11:30PM. No further details were given.
El Paso is location for Camp East Montana, an ICE detention facility the ACLU calls "largest internment facility in US." Two cases of TB & 19 covid detected 2/09.
El Paso is location for Camp East Montana, an ICE detention facility the ACLU calls "largest internment facility in US." Two cases of TB & 19 covid detected 2/09.
'What on Earth Is Going On?': FAA Grounds All Flights in El Paso, Texas | "So this is really strange. No reason given. No one, not even military users, were apparently given advanced warning. Aside from 9/11, I can't remember anything like that."
'What on Earth Is Going On?': FAA Grounds All Flights in El Paso, Texas
"No reason given. No one, not even military users, were apparently given advanced warning," said one veteran journalist. "Aside from 9/11, I can't remember anything like that."
www.commondreams.org
February 11, 2026 at 12:51 PM
DEVELOPING: All flights in El Paso, Texas have been grounded from Feb 10, 11:30PM to Feb 20, 11:30PM. No further details were given.
El Paso is location for Camp East Montana, an ICE detention facility the ACLU calls "largest internment facility in US." Two cases of TB & 19 covid detected 2/09.
El Paso is location for Camp East Montana, an ICE detention facility the ACLU calls "largest internment facility in US." Two cases of TB & 19 covid detected 2/09.
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The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River — where the U.S. government in the mid-1800s killed hundreds of Dakota people and imprisoned more than 1,600 in a concentration camp.
Native activists set up prayer camp outside Minneapolis ICE detention center • Minnesota Reformer
Tribal members and descendents set up tipis and a fire at a Fort Snelling Park for four days of prayer for those detained by ICE
minnesotareformer.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
The Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building looms in the background of the camp at Coldwater Spring, or Mni Owe Sni, at Fort Snelling along the Mississippi River — where the U.S. government in the mid-1800s killed hundreds of Dakota people and imprisoned more than 1,600 in a concentration camp.
@smosment.bsky.social Are you still available for indexing work? Have a friend in need and would love to recommend you if so!
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 AM
@smosment.bsky.social Are you still available for indexing work? Have a friend in need and would love to recommend you if so!
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One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
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Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
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“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
shout-out to the bison tag a deep fav of mine in the Baltimore graffiti ecosystem looking apt out there with our current wintry/salted landscape
February 10, 2026 at 6:38 PM
shout-out to the bison tag a deep fav of mine in the Baltimore graffiti ecosystem looking apt out there with our current wintry/salted landscape
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
February 10, 2026 at 6:10 AM
I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.
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now that's the power of a union
The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said
Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident
The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.
www.detroitnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
now that's the power of a union
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Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.
February 9, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Multiple friends have caught COVID recently, including some of my more cautious pals. There are a lot of winter germs in crowded places right now, fam. Personally, I never feel that shopping or riding transit unmasked is worth potentially getting sick. You can always renew this practice.